friends were saying "hop on trove?" as a joke and we did not last an hour, lol.

reminds me of this minecraft modpack I played a bit back in the day that restructured the entire game to be a dungeon crawler action rpg. wish i remembered the name, but i doubt i could find it now. strange duality of extremely simplistic and brain-dead combat, paired with 10 years of feature creep mechanics and menus. it's very obviously a game made in the wake of minecraft, with building and mining mechanics, but I never got to the part where that's ever anything more than an unimportant side-gimmick (if such a part exists).

feels like a fake video game that the main character in a cartoon would get really addicted to for a single episode.

played 10 hours back in 2020.

the most fun i had was in the character creator, the rest was a series of increasingly tedious and lengthy quests that consisted of things like "walk 500 meters to the north to this person and press e on them" or "go to this area and kill X enemies", layered with dozens of confusing and unintuitive menus.

which, to be fair, has been an issue with almost every MMO i've tried, but i've particularly never been a fan of the WOW style real-time rpg gameplay that proliferates through so many of them. admittedly i've had very limited MMO experience, but its bizarre that the only one ive tried with combat that wasnt mindnumbing was wizard101 lol